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New Insights Into Deformation And Fluid Flow Processes In The Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism: Results Of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 190, Gregory F. Moore, Asahiko Taira, Adam Klaus, Luann Becker, Babette Boeckel, Barry A. Cragg, Allison Dean, Chris L. Fergusson, Pierre Henry, Satoshi Hirano, Toshio Hisamitsu, Sabine Hunze, Miriam Kastner, Alex J. Maltman, Julia K. Morgan, Yuki Murakami, Demian M. Saffer, Mario Sanchez-Gomez, Elizabeth J. Screaton, David C. Smith, Arthur J. Spivack, Joan Steurer, Harold J. Tobin, Kohtaro Ujiie, Michael B Underwood, Moyra Wilson

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

The Nankai Trough accretionary prism is considered an “end-member” prism accreting a coarse terrigenous sediment section in a setting with structural simplicity, unparalleled resolution by seismic and other geophysical techniques, and large historic earthquakes. It therefore has been the focus of Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) drilling to address several unresolved questions concerning accretionary processes and prism evolution. At six sites cored along two transects across the Nankai Trough accretionary prism during ODP Leg 190, lithostratigraphy and sediment diagenesis vary markedly. For the first time, reference sites at the seaward ends of the two transects defined the stratigraphic framework of the …